A New Advent Calendar

(I've got an 8:00 AM follow up appointment this morning for a procedure I had two weeks ago. If I can, I will publish a second blog post finishing the Feast posts. If it's not up by 11:00, it will drop tomorrow.)

I love advent calendars. We had two of them when our kids were growing up.

Six kids for two calendars? That meant taking turns every day. We rotated through all the kids every three days and it worked out fine.

So, when Breyer began producing their advent calendars using Mini Whinnies as the prizes behind the doors, I was all over that. I didn't (and don't) collect Mini Whinnies, but I could not resist having a new horsey advent calendar. I even bought the unicorn version and I really dislike unicorns!

Earlier this year Breyer announced that there would be a Twelve Days of Christmas advent calendar. As soon as dealers were taking orders, I ordered mine. It arrived a few days ago.

I haven't opened the box yet as I did not want to spoil any possible surprises, but I did put a note on my calendar to begin opening doors on December 12.

Retro colors of woodgrain, charcoal, and splatter grey are being used and it sounds as though the Appaloosa Performance Horse, Fighting Stallion, and Starlight will be behind a door. The last piece is a gambler's choice of five Breyer vintage decorator colors. 

I'm wondering about that - gold charm, florentine, wedgewood, and copenhagen are the original vintage decorator colors. Is the fifth a charcoal? Some collectors lump that in as a decorator color. Maybe silver filigree? To me, that's a more recent color and not vintage. Woodgrain was already listed and shown, so I think that can be eliminated.

Guess I'll find out Christmas Eve!

Stay 'tooned!

12 Days of Christmas Aprons

I have two favorite Christmas songs - O Come, All Ye Faithful and The Twelve Days of Christmas. (Really disparate, aren't they?)

That love showed up last December when I wrote a series of blog posts titled, The Twelve Days of Horsey Christmas. (I see my missing Christmas tree in those photos - where on earth did I put it when I finished taking those pictures??)

With ten Pony Pals visiting for the holidays I decided to embroider them all aprons using the song as a theme and include Craig and me to make twelve.

Titan, Susie, Cambria, Julie, and Kate modeling their aprons with us.

Partridge in a pear tree

Two turtle doves

Three French hens

Four calling birds

Five golden rings

Six geese a'laying (Craig wasn't thrilled to be a goose laying eggs, but the only other alternative was eight maids a milking! Haha!)

Seven swans a'swimming

Eight maids a'milking (I hadn't yet trimmed the jump threads on mine)

Nine ladies dancing

Ten Lords a'leaping

Eleven pipers piping

Twelve drummers drumming

We tried to get all twelve of us together at once for a photo but it always turned out like this. But that's okay - we had fun wearing them, cooking in them, and best of all, just being together for the holiday.

Christmas Card of the Day

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The Twelve Days of Horsey Christmas - Day Twelve

         On the twelfth day of Christmas, dear Santa gave to me,

twelve horses coming,

eleven friends a'gathering,

ten mares a'griping,

nine horses prancing,

eight ponies milling,

seven ribbon winners,

six mules (sort of) a'braying,

a new circus ring!

four horsey "birds,"

three new friends, 

two Maureen Loves, 

 

and a pony that was running free!

 Breyer advent calendar surprise is

a water trough and some show awards!

The Twelve Days of Horsey Christmas - Day Eleven

        On the eleventh day of Christmas, dear Santa gave to me,

eleven friends a'gathering,

ten mares a'griping,

nine horses prancing,

eight ponies milling,

seven ribbon winners,

six mules (sort of) a'braying,

a new circus ring!

four horsey "birds,"

three new friends, 

two Maureen Loves, 

 

and a pony that was running free!

 Breyer advent calendar surprise 

is this black, two sock Morgan!

The Twelve Days of Horsey Christmas - Day Ten

       On the tenth day of Christmas, dear Santa gave to me,

ten mares a'griping,

nine horses prancing,

eight ponies milling,

seven ribbon winners,

six mules (sort of) a'braying,

a new circus ring!

four horsey "birds,"

three new friends, 

two Maureen Loves, 

 

and a pony that was running free!

 Breyer advent calendar surprise ...

cavaletti and some hay.